October 10, 2007

Re: 8-18-07 Potter Letter

Dear Mr. or Ms. McCloskey:

Although your response to my earlier letter to Potter of 8-18-07 was amusingly unresponsive, you did conveniently confirm, albeit in a profoundly convoluted manner, USPS does indeed sell forced customer information to third parties under specific conditions.

… Forced customer information. Should customers not comply, their mail isn’t forwarded. -- While corporations they no longer wish to have updated personal information laugh their portly gluteus maximus off all the way to the bank.

Most accommodating of the Postal "Service," no? -- As it lines its pockets with fees paid by these corporations. Clearly, privacy for sale, -- in Nazi America. Fascism, defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. Sadly, "justified" by the bastardization of religion.

Furthermore, either you did not carefully read all seven questions, or more likely, chose to disingenuously answer only those of particular interest to you. Supremely, shrewd.

Regarding the "national security letter" matter, I did not ask if USPS "uses" such instruments. I asked if USPS accepts them in lieu of judicially-authorized subpoenas. You not-so-cleverly dodged the question.

Either you are not informed regarding their acceptance by USPS, -- or you are a liar. Postmasters have confirmed USPS does indeed accept such "administrative" instruments in lieu of subpoenas from federal agents. Without question, this is certainly true at the local level. … Is the Postmaster General unaware what transpires at the bottom of the figurative food chain?

Working for Potter at the highest level of the Postal "Service," your apparent ignorance of Postal "Service" acceptance of "national security letters" in lieu of subpoenas from federal agents is simply not plausible.

Someone’s lying here, Mr. McCloskey. … Or the level of incompetence, denial, and ignorance extends to the highest level of the Postal "Service." Including you. Either possibility is clearly not flattering and a poor reflection on the Postal "Service."

Amusingly, your disingenuous referral to the "Justice" Department for information on use of "national security letters" by federal goons is particularly comical since it is this increasingly fascist agency that wrote and implemented the outrageously unconstitutional policy that allows their use. … Sadly again, in lieu of constitutionally-required subpoenas and in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment.

Then again, it doesn’t really matter to government goons anyway, does it? After all, these thugs do as they please regardless of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. … Particularly, in this "Administration." -- The most corrupt and abusive since Richard Nixon.

Furthermore, this writer did not ask for online directions to USPS privacy policy. I asked for a written copy. Your failure to promptly provide such documentation is highly indicative of government hubris and profound indifference to public information requests. -- Then again, under the Bush "Administration" and its outrageously corrupt and abusive "Justice" Department, the Freedom Of Information Act has been obliterated.

With deepest appreciation, thanks for the fodder and proof positive we are indeed living an Orwellian nightmare. My readers will be most appreciative of your "cooperation." Your outrageously convoluted "response" was truly entertaining. -- Can ‘t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with BS, right?

The amusing sophistry and abuse of semantics in your perversely convoluted explanation is second to none. Hat’s off. … An attorney couldn’t have written it better. -- Incidentally, one of the reasons the legal profession is as despised as it is.

The apparent glaring lack of interest by the Postmaster General in local postal delivery problems reported to his office in my letter of 8-18-07 is stunning. If not Potter, where do I report these problems? To local and state postal authorities who are part of the problem?

To a local postal inspector this writer has absolutely no faith or trust in? To FBI goons who will distort and twist anything I say to them and use it against me? Then again, why bother? Nothing will change. Nothing will be done to correct the problems. Nazi America, remember?

… A perfect "Catch-22," no? Regardless, my readers will quickly get the point. Again, thanks for the additional fodder and true entertainment. Your "response," more accurately lack thereof, is indeed strong argument for privatization of the Postal "Service."

After all, it’s become far too corpulent, grossly inefficient and wasteful, and supremely incapable of keeping private customer information private. In a convoluted fashion, selling it. Yet, it seems to have no problems at all greedily raising rates. Who’d ‘a ‘thunk’ it, no?

Pointedly,
 

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly, The Llano Ledger
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609